Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 796

Two Sunlit Days of Art, Music, and, uhm, words

http://www.targatocn.it/it/internal.php?news_code=63913&cat_code=36

*We're at Ground Zero here for the best vineyards in Europe.

*Boy, life sure is hard this spring. I can't wait to rush back to a major urban
center for some of that swine flu.

You know who's really great with this "clear it out to the Italian countryside
to booze it up telling stories while you avoid the Black Death" riff? Boccaccio.
I recommend Boccaccio because the Decameron reads just like a whole bunch of
medieval Ita

First, Imagine You Are a Female Israeli Neanderthal

*Next, imagine that your intimate anatomy has been uploaded onto the
Internet for everyone to see.

http://www.physorg.com/news159548688.html

*It could be even worse; you could have been some teensy, harmless hobbit protohuman
minding your own business on some obscure island someplace.

http://www.livescience.com/history/090422-hobbit-cast.html

*They love to rip the veil of modesty over at "Sexy Archeology."

http://sexyarchaeology.org/

Environment 2.0 at Futuresonic

ENVIRONMENT 2.0 AT FUTURESONIC 2009

Manchester To Host Unique Mass Participation Projects On The Environment

http://www.futuresonic.com/env20

Futuresonic 2009 with the Met Office and the Natural History Museum are presenting a range of mass participation projects & conference events in Manchester, 13-16 May.

Climate Bubbles is a playful, participatory project in which two bubble blowing games enable people across the city of Manchester to test air flow circulation, and by sharing the

USA to radically improve its cybersecurity. Yup! You Bet!

TOP OF THE NEWS

--US Cyber Security Needs an Overhaul

(April 29, 2009)

Calling the United States' approach to cyber security "broken,"
"childlike," and "embarrassing," experts in the field are calling for
"rethinking how we do [cyber security:]." Reports that indicate
infiltration of the US power grid and theft of data from the Joint
Strike Fighter Project by foreign cyber attackers have brought the issue
of cyber security to the forefront; in recent weeks, legislators have
introduced bills a

Augmented Russian Reality

*Now that's the real stuff, ladies and gents.

http://vimeo.com/4330719

Me too (doing some AR stuff)! from Anatoly Zenkov on Vimeo.

Military Strategy Fiction

"This tale of a dream is dedicated to the "gilded Popinjays" and "hired assassins" of the British nation".

*Man, those were the days: when Imperial officers wrote with imperial good taste. I especially
admire the cogent Kipling quotes.

*Note the resemblance of this effort to futurist scenarios and design probes.

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/Swinton/Swinton.asp

*The central lesson I derive from "Duffer's Drift" is that genuine military battlefield efficiency can't
be attai

Volcanoes on Mercury

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/messengermercury/

Little world looking a lot weirder than we gave it credit for.

Another Atompunk Evening With Nuclear Holocaust

PLANETART presents another Atompunk evening with Nuclear holocaust, voice modulators, a dildo-performance, robot-workshop, electro-pop performances and music... all related to the theme of ATOMPUNK, as a prologue to the GOGBOT festival 10-13 September. Location is the PLANETART Medialab in the former Volkskrantbuilding Amsterdam. Participating artists are Thomas Margolf, Riekje Jongsma, Maaike Berghof, Elena Kravtchenko, Shock Royal, Jean Plastiq. Serving Eurotrash Beer by Arno Coenen.
Atompunk

Dead Media Beat: Ghosts And Their Media

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear friends,

in the framework of the exhibition "Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media" (HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 16th May - 18th October 2009, Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr., Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany), the following workshop will take place for which you can register now (until 8 May):

THE WHITE VISITATION

Workshop by Martin Howse (GB)

- in English -

16th + 17th May 2009 (Sat + Sun)
Please register until 8th May 2009 with
Martin Howse, m@1010.c

The People, Yes

*Depression 2.0.

"the writhing-point of where the money will come from"